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Goldman Sachs Asset Management is planning to raise approximately $13bn for its latest mezzanine debt fund, GS Mezzanine Partners IX, which will target private equity-backed companies across North America and Europe, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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EQT has fully exited its investment in Galderma Group AG through the sale of approximately 34 million shares in a transaction worth around CHF4.9bn ($5.5bn), marking what the firm described as the largest sponsor-backed block trade on record.
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Carlyle Group has restructured the leadership of its European private equity platform following underperformance from its previous vintage, signalling plans to resume fundraising for its flagship European buyout fund, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION: As the world opened up after the pandemic, the construction industry saw a boom in demand. Foundation Building Materials pursued a buy and build strategy to capitalise on this, with an investment from American Securities driving the development of an e-commerce platform to target its specialised customer base.
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Papa John’s International has received a takeover proposal from Qatari-backed investment firm Irth Capital, which has offered to take the restaurant group private at a valuation of roughly $1.5bn, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
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Hedging is a critical tool for funds that raise and deploy capital globally to protect themselves from currency risk. Against a volatile macroeconomic backdrop and an increasingly challenging fundraising and exit environment, that imperative is only growing – though it brings liquidity risk of it’s own. This paradox is accentuated in the context of open-ended funds, as this research finds.
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Private investment firm Bain Capital is nearing the final close of its sixth pan-Asia private equity fund after raising approximately $10.5bn, according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed people familiar with the fundraising.
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EQT is exploring options for the sale of enterprise software company SUSE in a transaction that could value the business at as much as $6bn, according to a report by Bloomberg citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
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Private equity firm Lone Star Funds has agreed to acquire the capsules and health ingredients division of Swiss life sciences group Lonza in a transaction valuing the business at CHF2.3bn (around $3bn), according to a report by Reuters.
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Angus Whiteley, CEO of Stafford Capital Partners, discusses timberland investment.
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